Grander criticisms - Penrose, Searle and Dreyfus


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Grander criticisms - Penrose, Searle and Dreyfus

I'll now talk about three ``ingredient X'' arguments, each of which claims that the minds can do something that a Turing-equivalent computer can't. These all take the form ``Humans can do A; but computers can't, because they lack ingredient X''.

Such arguments are often inspired by comparing the the inflexibility of conventional AI to human creativity, intuition or adaptability. Some claim that connectionism may be able to go further than classical symbolic AI. Others don't.

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Jocelyn Ireson-Paine
Wed Feb 14 23:51:11 GMT 1996